The New Dialectic : Conversational Contexts of Argument / Douglas Walton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walton, Doug, author.

Series:

Toronto studies in philosophy.

Toronto Studies in Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reasoning.

Logic.

Dialogue.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Because developments in informal logic have been based, for the most part, on idealized and abstract models, the tools available for argument analysis are not easily adapted to the needs of everyday argumentation. In this book Douglas Walton proposes a new and practical approach to argument analysis based on his theory that different standards for argument must apply in the case of different types of dialogue. By refining and extending the existing formal classifications of dialogue, Walton shows that each dialogue type, be it inquiry, negotiation, or critical discussion, has its own set of goals. He goes on to demonstrate that an argument can best be evaluated in terms of its contribution, positive or negative, to the goals of the particular dialogue it is meant to further. In this way he illustrates how argument can be brought into the service of many types of dialogue, and thus has valuable uses that go well beyond the mere settling of disputes and differences. By reaching back to the Aristotelian roots of logic as an applied, practical discipline and by formulating a new framework of rationality for evaluating arguments, Douglas Walton restores a much-needed balance to argument analysis. This book complements and extends his Argument Structure: A Pragmatic Theory (University of Toronto Press, 1996).

Contents:

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Chapter 1: Introduction

1 Statement of Purpose

2 Informal Logic and Fallacies

3 Aristotle's Five Types of Arguments

4 The Waning of Dialectic

5 Locke's Four Kinds of Arguments

6 Fallacies of Relevance

7 Other Important Fallacies

8 The New Approach to Dialectic

9 Types of Dialogue

10 Dialectical Relevance

Chapter 2: Persuasion Dialogue

1 Main Characteristics

2 Argument in Persuasion Dialogue

3 Commitment

4 Critical Discussion

5 Nonexplicit Commitments

6 Rigorous and Permissive Persuasion Dialogue7 Maieutic Function

8 The Problem of Enthymemes

9 Relevance in Persuasion Dialogue

10 Evaluating Criticisms of Irrelevance

Chapter 3: The Inquiry

2 Advancing States of Knowledge

3 Aristotelian Demonstration

4 Is Scientific Argumentation an Inquiry?

5 Other Subtypes of Inquiry

6 Argument and Explanation

7 Black and Beardsley on the Inquiry

8 Cases of Public Inquiries

9 Profiles of Dialogue in the Inquiry

10 Relevance in the Inquiry

Chapter 4: Negotiation Dialogue1 Main Characteristics

2 Subtypes

3 The Game-Theory Model of Negotiation

4 Commitment in Negotiation Dialogue

5 Relevance and Irrelevance

6 Threats as Arguments

7 Dialectical Shifts from Negotiation

8 Solutions for Deadlock

9 Bias and Advocacy

10 Advocacy Advertising

Chapter 5: Information-Seeking Dialogue

2 The Interview

3 Searching a Database

4 Position to Know

5 Classification of Questions

6 Presuppositions of Questions

7 How Can a Question Be a Fallacy?8 Expert Consultation Dialogue

9 Peirastic and Exetastic Dialogues

10 Relevance in Information-Seeking Dialogue

Chapter 6: Deliberation

2 Practical Reasoning

3 Argument from Consequences

4 The Dilemma

5 Stages and Dynamic Aspects of Deliberation

6 Aristotle's Account of Deliberation

7 The Town Hall Meeting

8 Public and Political Deliberation

9 Relevance in Deliberation

10 Relevance Across Joined Dialogues

Chapter 7: Eristic Dialogue

1 The Quarrel as Paradigm2 Eristic Dialogue

3 Stages of the Quarrel

4 Closed Attitude of Eristic Dialogue

5 Plato on Eristic Argument

6 Aristotle on Contentious Argument

7 Modern Revival of Eristic Argument

8 Relevance in Eristic Dialogue

9 Subtypes of Eristic Dialogue

10 Identifying Characteristics of Eristic Dialogue

Chapter 8: Dialectical Shifts

1 Types of Shifts

2 Licit and Illicit Shifts

3 Licit Shifts to and from Expert Consultation Dialogue

4 Illicit Shifts and Fallacious Arguments

5 The Infomercial

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jan 2019)

ISBN:

9786611997700

9781281997708

1281997706

9781442681859

1442681853

OCLC:

1083585814